At around 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, Yoshikazu Tamura, a teacher at Kumeda High School in Kishiwada City, Osaka Prefecture is alleged to have filmed up the skirt of a female university student, 18, as she sat on some steps at the Nio-mon gate about 20 meters away.

Tamura, who has been charged with violating a public nuisance ordinance, admits to the allegations. “I pretended to film the scenery as I targeted up the skirt of the woman,” the suspect is quoted, according to TV Asahi (Oct. 17).